One in Five American Adults Found To Experience Chronic Pain

(Newswire.net — October 10, 2022) Orlando, FL — Over the years, researchers have been carrying out studies to investigate the various aspects of pain. In the United States, chronic pain is found to be one of the most chronic conditions. 

In 2019, the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention produced a new set of questions relating to pain to its National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).  The NHIS a large household-based annual survey that provides valuable insights into the health statuses of U.S. adults nationwide. 

Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass Eye and Ear reveal that 50.2 million (20.5 percent) adults in the U.S. experience chronic pain based on analysis of the new NHIS data. There is an estimated total value of lost productivity due to chronic pain of almost $300 billion annually.

The findings of this research were published in Pain.

“Chronic pain is a serious condition that affects millions of Americans,” said corresponding author R. Jason Yong, MD, MBA, medical director of the Pain Management Center at the Brigham and associate chief of pain in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine. 

“Other studies have touched on this fact, but data from pain clinics, hospitals, and other providers tend to only provide information on people seeking out medical attention. Having the NHIS data to validate previous studies is incredibly impactful.”

The authors have discovered that subjects with chronic pain had significantly more missed workdays than those without chronic pain. 

It is worth noting that the researchers quantified the total economic effect of chronic pain on Americans, which was estimated to reach $79.9 billion in lost wages.

“The impetus for our study arose from the day-to-day clinical finding that many of our chronic sinusitis patients also reported headache, migraine, and other forms of chronic pain,” said senior author Neil Bhattacharyya, MD, MA, FACS, professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Mass Eye and Ear. 

“We decided to look at the bigger picture of chronic pain, and we were somewhat surprised at the large-scale presence of chronic pain in the US.”

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